Famous Quotes
- Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on History
- Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
- Mao Zedong on History
- Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.
- Ric Keller on History
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
- Anita Baker on History
- Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- Douglas MacArthur on History
- Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
- Phyllis George on History
- Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.
- Stephen Ambrose on History
- Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
- Jean Genet on History
- Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.
- Alton Brown on History
- Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
- Edward Kennedy on History
- De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
- Aldous Huxley on History
- Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
- Ibrahim Babangida on History
- Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
- Margaret Thatcher on History
- Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
- Mao Zedong on History
- Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
- Dag Hammarskjold on History
- Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow on History
- Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth on History
- Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
- Frederick Jackson Turner on History
- Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher on History
- Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
- George Lucas on History
- Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
- Jean-Paul Sartre on History
- Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on History
- Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
- Mason Cooley on History
- Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
- Haruki Murakami on History
- Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
- Rahm Emanuel on History
- Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
- George Michael on History
- Failure is impossible.
- Susan B. Anthony on History
- Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst on History
- Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
- Benito Mussolini on History
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
- Louis D. Brandeis on History
- Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
- James A. Garfield on History
- Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert Kennedy on History
- Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
- Michael Haneke on History
- Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
- Christopher Columbus on History
- For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
- Conrad Black on History
- For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
- Dennis Prager on History
- For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
- Michael Pollan on History
- For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
- Nicolaus Copernicus on History
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf on History
- For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
- Harry Browne on History
- For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill on History
- For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
- Louis L'Amour on History
- For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
- Bill Moyers on History
- For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on History
- For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead on History
- France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
- Francois Mitterrand on History
- France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
- Johnny Depp on History
- Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
- Augustine Birrell on History
- From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
- Jennifer Granholm on History
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